Posts by mauriceoliver

Or Musical Instruments Like the Guillotine…

By on Oct 15, 2012 in Poetry | Comments Off

Most people go to sleep at night. My insomnia screams like a leaf-blower of blinding blizzard hiding in the Siberian cupboard’s rattling snowplow. It grabs my keys then races along the freeway in a retro shoot ‘um up Western then shouts a loud bugaloo down Broadway using lip-liner sirens. It’s made of steel tacks mixed in the nine inch nails and rattles every ordinary tin roof scattering fluffy pillow feathers. It has no smitten eye piece but a starry sledge hammer of acid rock amplifier plugged into my tumbling dice. And when it really gets angry it smashes my glasses of...

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Refashioned, Using Suede Juxtapose

By on Sep 9, 2012 in Poetry | 1 comment

Two days later I come to and find wolfs in my flannel sheets and a Czar hiding in my bedroom slippers. I put on a robe to cover-up my balalaikas and stagger to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee. Here’s the point where you may want to add wind chimes or just a couple of bacchanal sirens taped to the kitchen counter. See, I never make it to the coffee pot. I trip over my oversize dog and land in a drapery crew cut, breaking my commemorate precaution shimmy feather and flashbulb to heaven where I’m cordially greeted by statuesque hype mugging milk and honey on a leash. But this muffler...

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